We are the assault force for and the cutting edge vanguard of ocean conservation because of the love and the respect we get ...

Children pray in front of the "Peace of Fire" at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa, Japan, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. Okinawan people find it unacceptable that their land is still occupied by a ...

The “bone digger” slides into a thin crevice on a hill in the Okinawan jungle. He’s a slight man, nimbly fitting his frame through the cave entrance, carefully avoiding the sharp limestone roof while ...

Army Cpl. Desmond Doss, a Seventh Day Adventist and conscientious objector who refused to carry a rifle but served as a ...

The Chinese Navy’s aircraft carrier Liaoning, accompanied by three destroyers, has been conducting overt military ...

As living memories of World War Two fade 80 years after it ended, Japanese educators looking for new ways to teach about ...

TOKYO -- As Japan prepares to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the nation's return to sovereignty and the end of U.S. occupation after World War II, some members of one community are getting ready to ...

GINOWAN, Japan — The Rev. Shigeaki Kinjo, 78 and in failing health, no longer wanted to talk about that fateful day 62 years ago toward the end of World War II when he beat to death his mother, ...

Here is a slightly revised version of a package of stories we first ran five years ago, commemorating the final land battle of the Pacific in World War II. The largest amphibious invasion of the ...

The Battle of Okinawa in World War II ended on June 22, 1945. According to history.com, the battle was the last major battle of World War II and one of the bloodiest. “On April 1, 1945 – Easter Sunday ...

As two U.S. Marine Corps aircraft soar above a pristine Pacific beach, a Japanese environmentalist on the shore below worries that she may see many more of them very soon. “I feel the vibration” when ...